Ability Net

www.abilitynet.co.uk

Making things possible
AbilityNet provides specialist help for people with a disability to enable them to use a computer at home, in education or in employment.

Brain Tree Training
Cognitive Rehabilitation Services

www.cognitive-rehab.org.uk/braintree/

Practical training that supports the British Society for Rehabilitation Medicine / Royal College of Physicians clinical guidelines for acquired brain injury

Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust

www.birt.co.uk 

BIRT is Europe’s largest independent provider of brain injury rehabilitation services. We offer a wide range of specialist services to around 400 people with an acquired brain injury including:

• Intensive rehabilitation
• Long-term rehabilitation
• Community support.

Rehab UK

"Rehab UK was set up in the mid 1990's to promote opportunities for people who have an acquired brain injury; to enable them to return to their rightful place in both the comjunity and work-place. More than 120,000 people leave hospital each year with a brain injury. This represents a huge increase in the last twenty years, partly due to improved medical and hospital services.

. . . With the support of our highly specialised vocational rehabilitation teams at our Brain Injury Centres, we are helping these people."

www.rehabuk.org
London Brain Injury Centre, 21 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY
Tel: 020 7378 0505 
Birmingham Brain Injury Centre, Borough Buildings, 58-72 John Bright Street, Birmingham B1 1BN
Tel: 0121 616 3900
Tyne & Wear Brain Injury Centre, Melbourne House, Melbourne Street, Newcastle on Tyne NE1 2JQ
Tel: 0191 232 0234

Rehab Group, Ireland www.rehab.ie

Momentum (formerly known as Rehab UK

www.momentumscotland.org/

Momentum works in partnership throughout Scotland to enable and empower disabled and excluded people to identify and achieve their goals.
We support people to remain active citizens within their own communities, through the provision of mainstream employment and personal support services.

Carers National Association

www.carersuk.org

Carers look after family, partners or friends in need of help because they are ill, frail or have a disability. The care they provide is unpaid.

Carers UK is the voice of carers and is the only carer-led organisation working for all carers.

A variety of useful topics are discussed on this website, eg. Coming out of hospital, When caring becomes a crisis. Dealing with someone else's money, Council Tax and Juggling work and care.

Kent Aquired Brain Injury Forum (KABIF)

www.kabif.org.uk

KABIF is a group of brain injury survivors, carers, front-line professionals and policy makers who wish to advance issues concerning acquired brain injury across Kent.

The Oliver Zangwill Centre

www.ozc.nhs.uk

Information about their rehabilitation programmes, assessments and workshop and the Neuropage Service. Neuropage uses randio-paging technology to send remainders of things to do.

People in a coma   

www.waiting.com

A Page Directed toYou Who are Waiting While Someone is in a Coma

I pick up the phone and a voice tells me my husband has been in an accident.
Everything takes on an air of unreality.
I am so trapped in that bright moment that I can scarcely breathe.

Rehab Directory Online

www.ukabif.org.uk

Trying to find specialist rehabilitation services for people with a brain injury can be tricky. The Headway Helpline often receives calls from both professionals and families looking for appropriate services. However, the serach has now been made easier by the launch of a new directory of Rehabilitation Services.
This web-based database provides information on services available throughout the UK.

Thrive

www.thrive.org.uk

Using gardening to change lives. More than 1600 groups in the UK run social and theraputic horticultural projects.